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FLAYS OIL TRUST
In Message to Congress Presi
dent Roosevelt Brands as
col issal bobbers
? The Staadard Oil Combines, Which He;
Says Has Eiriched Itself by Crimes.
Commissioner Garfield's Proof
oi Monopoly's Gu?t the
Basis of Cbarjes.
P.-esident Roosevelt, In a message |
j to Oongres3 Friday indulged In a se
vere denunciation of the Standard 01
monopoly, charging it and the railroads J
of tbe country with alt manner of of
fenses against the Interstate Commer
<ce and Antl-R ibate laws. The ooarges I
against tbis vicious monopoly werej
timed psychologically with the ap
proaching vote in the Senate on the
railr ad rate bill, the Presiden ts pet
measure, whioh be is determined shall
?o on tbe Federal statute books. Bit
this belated laying bare of tbe flagrant
.and persistent violation of the law by
the Rockefeller monoply Is two years
v behind tbe times.
In 1904 the same charges against
tbe Oil combine were made by Con
L ?ressman William Rmdolph Hearst |
L in all bis newspapers, and In Deoem
Pber of last year he proposed a remedy
' In the shape of a bill to increase the
j powers of the Interstate Commerce ]
Commission and to create an Inter
state Commerce Court, which would
have made impossible a continuation |
?of such deflanos of the Cnited States |
laws.
The bill served as a model for the I
?Esch-Townsend bill, and was killed by i
the Administration. For years the
Government has paid no attention to
tbe repeated accusations against the
Standard OH Company, whose crimes |
are calmly enumerated by the Presi
dent and Commissioner Garfi aid to-,
day.
Despite the superlatlveness of the
denunciatory adj actives used by the
President and Commissioner Garfleld,
which accuse the Standard Oil monop
oly of divers- and sundry offenses I
against Federal laws, the Department j
of Justice, in rJmosfc the.same breath,
announces that It will try to prosecute
only under the Anti-Robate law. of
whioa the maximum penalty for con
viction is only a fine of a sum. Which
at most would be considered paltry by
tbe millionaire defendants.
In other words, should all tbe J
Standard Oil officials, all the railroad
?chiefs of the country be convicted,
they .would merely have to scratch j
their pens across tbe bottom of checks {
lor sums infinitesimal as compared
with the prodts secured from tue ilie
gal and secret rates and rebates,
and go on committing the same j
orimes against the laws of the land
Then, by putting the screws under
the price-list anew and tacking a cent
or two on to the rate for oil, the trust
would get all its money back with
enormous interest.
Commissioner Garfield's investiga
tlons unearthed undeniable proof of
the guilt of tbe Oil Trust and the
railroads, and his specific charges
formed tbe basis for the President's'
message and recommendations to Con
gress
He winorsd no woeds and used no
emasculated phrases in denouncing
tbe Standard Oil Company as a vic
ious business organization, reared upon J
the loot from illegal methods of doing |
business.
He accused the officials of the com
pany of criminal methods and strip
ped the fabric of their boasted organ
fzitlon bare; showed it, to be a mass
of corruption; a comblnatlnn defiant
of every law of the land, and even of |
decent business ameultiOs; a heartless
and wynton destroyer of competitors
and a menace} to the country.
Thr revelations in the report of
Commissioner Garfield are almost as
tounding. They expose, so far as the
Standard Oil Company is concerned,
exactly the same methods that Wil
liam R. Hearst has uncovered in the I
coal roads trust and the alliance be
tween the Sugar Trust and tbe great
railroads. It is significant to note
that Commissioner Girfield's exposure
illuminates tbe situation with exam
ples of precisely the same kinds of
rebates, refunds and other illegal fav
or as the coal cases and the sugir cases
have developed.
Iaotberwords.it tends to prove
what Congressman Hearst and many
writers and Investigators have con
tended for a long time?that the
Standard created the system and per
fected it and the coal roads and the I
Sugar Trust and the other.trusts are [
only im'.totors snd followers of the
mos gigantic trust of them a'l.
Seldom has organized capital been
so ruthlessly pilloried. C >m ulsslon
er GarfHd presents an array of facts
and figures that would oonvmoe the
most skepptical and he does it with a |
clearness that a child could under
stand.
He nos only convicts the Oil Trust
of flagrant and persist eat violations j
of the law, but accuses its clH ;lal9 of
deliberate lying. He says that at
the beginning of the investigation the
cffiaials of th3 Standard Od said the
company had not obtained and was
then not obtaining secret rebates
from the railroad*. Ee then proceeds
to show that the company has hab
itually received and is still reoeiving
such rebatef, and be cites case r?fter
.case in proof.
Probably no more opportune time
could have been elected by the Presi
69.
dent -to Bend the report to Congress
just as the Senate is about to be?ii>
voting on the railroad rate bill. The
President believes the factf reveled
by C immissioner Garfleld constitute I
tbe best argument yet presented that
the ynlv effective remedy for secret
rebating and open preferential ratings
is through government regulation,
with only such restrictions as are nec
ce suy under the Constitution.
One of the most significant features
of the rep ort is that when tbe atten
tion of the railroads was called to
certain specific instances of rebating
discovered by Mr. Garfleld, uhey dis '
continued tbe practica thereby ao
kDow'e girig their guilt.
The Presliflnt'b or I r recommenda
tions in his message are that the im-,
munlty law be corrected, that tbe
free alcohol bill be passed, which
would be a set-back for the Standard
and that tbe further exploitation by
the trusts of coal and oil lands owned
by the Government, be prevented.
Already tbe Department of Jus
tice bas taken uo the matter of pros
eeutinns.of the Standard Oil Company
and the various railroads involved, on
the facts learned by Commissioner
Garfield. In this conn ction it.sh uld
be noted that the report presented to
day is only on one phase of the oil
situation?that relating to transpor
tation and freight rates. There are
six other branches of the general sub
j ct that the Bureau of Corporations
is still considering and on wh oh it
will report later.
TJSJS KILLED.
Ool'iaion on the Pennsylvania Rail
road Near Htrrlkb arg.
Two passenger trains oolllded h?ad
on in a cut-off near Wllliamsburg. Pa.
on the Pennsylvania railroad at 10.45
Friday night. It is reported 10 peo
ple are killed and many injured.
Eight physicians from Huntington
have been sent the scene of the
wreck.
A few hours before 37 freight oars
bad been wrecked at Union furnace,
on the middle division, twenty miles
east of tbat city and all trains were
being run around Aitoona over tbe
out-off. The Chicago mall left tbat
city on time and went as far as Ty
rone, wbere it was sent back to go
over tbe out off. Tbe Chicago and
St. Louis express was sent east from
Huntington on the cut-off and the
two trains met at Springfield, wbere
there is but one track. The cause of
tbe disaster is said to bave been a
misunderstanding of orders by the
operator at Springfield Junction.
Physicians have been sent from Ai
toona.
Tbe railroad officials at Huntington
and Williamsburg have reoeived a re
port that both locomotives, the ex
press and mail cars and passenger
coaches are completely demolished.
Oae of the trains was running re
versed, with tbe coach next to the en
gine. Twenty-five passengers weae
in this coach, and it is reported that
all are either dead or wounded. The
railroad officials say it will be impos
sible to tell tbe exact details of the
accident until Saturday morning as
several people are pinned under the
wreckage. A special has been sent
From there to bring in the (dead and
injured, but it will not arrive until
*bovt 4 o'clock. Conductor Fi ekes end
E lgineer J. H. Collins of the mall
train are reported to he seriously in-,
lured.
BOUBUVBLT FLUNKS.
He Worked a Shell Game on tbe
DsmoeratB.
\ A dispatch from Washington says
President Boosevelt has completely
flunked on bis championship of the
rate-making bill. So seems to be tbe
general impression in Washington
among those who knew of his having
sent for forty newspaper correspon
dents, Friday afternoon, mo3tly re
presentatives of Republican papers.
He informed them that he would
stand to the amendment agreed upon
by the Aldrlcb element. Tills Is
known as the Allison amendment and
calls for the broadest possible court
review of the rates fixed by the inter
state commerce commission, against
which review all tbe fight, in tbe
senate or most of it has been direated.
Up till Friday th? president has stood
out persistently In favor of limited
court review. He denies now that he
has surrendered, but olaims that his
advocacy of the Allison amendment is
in accord with his private view and
the v>ry tning he has been striving
for. Exactly how he will be able to
justify this claim Is best known to
himself. He says be is consistent
and he doesn't care who thinks other
wise, So there! But it is thought and
freely said tbat the object of sendlgn
for these correspondents was to get
the news to the country in such a way
that the people will be fooled.
S nator Bailey, who has led the
fight against the Aldrloh cro <rd, says
the Allison amendment is tbe broad
en court review provision that could
be drawn, and Senator Tlllman thinks
that the Republicans will jow let up
on it to a man. Tlllman says he sees
no reason vuy they cannot jost pass
the bill Monday, for the Democrats
are powerless, aud the Republicans
will stiok by the president, lb looks
like something is going to happen ]
qow, after all these months of talk,
though It isn't going to happen in ac
cordance with Roosevelt's talk Mr.
Aldrloh hasn't talked, but he's Jt.
Zacii McGhee.
Bold Thier.
A horse thief operated on Broad
way, just above City Hall Park, New
York Thursday afternoon, and pick
ing for a pr'ze a handsome biy and
rubber tired runabout, valued at
81,000, owned by Maurice S. Looks,
No. 141 Schenck street, Brooklyn,
drove rapidly away, while the owner
was in an office building.
O?AiNfcrEBlIItG
HOT SHOT FIRED
V _
Into Several Halted States Judg
es in the Senate
BY SEMTOR THEM AN
He Claimed That Spoeoer Had Acted
Harshly Towards Him, bat Slid He
did Not Object to Being Call
ed "Rode," Because He
Was a "Rude Man."
During the debate in the United
States Senate Tbuisday on the rail
road rate bill senator Tlliman took
the floor to put into the Record a num
ber of statements he had gathered to
justify his position that the people
distrust the federal courts. Prelimi
narily be announced that he did not
intend a wholesale onslaught upon the
judloiary and he acquitted the i sup
reme court especially of Questionable
proceedings, although, he said, it had
"wobbled" more qr less.
In the south, he went on, there
were ma"* excellent judges, but on
the other ha d some of them had been
guilty of 41?. j questionable and dis
creditable acts." Many of them were
he said, uiduly prejudiced in favor of
the railroads add were wholly urflo to
be trusted with the power of passing
ou railroad questions. Hence he ar
gued that tbore would be no great
risk in preventing their interference
In such oases. "It is utterly absurd
to show that the judges are higher
creatures than other men," be said.
He referred to the division of the
supreme court on the income tax case
saying that in that case one of the
judges had changed his mind. "Thus"
ne said, "the practice cf a century
reversed and the country submitted
merely because of the plea that the
highest court cf the country must be
sustained."
He also cited other cases in other
courts Intended to, show that some
judges are not only not infallible, but
not incorruptible." The first of the
references was to Judge Smith Mc
Pherson of Iowa, who wan represen
ted in an article in the New York
World of the 30th of March last as
having appeared at a banquet to G-ov:
Cummins at Council B<uffs in such a
condition as "not to be able to
stand up without clinging to the ta
ble.
Mr. Tillman next referred to a
pleasure trip to Tampico, given by
three Kansas railroads to Federal
Judges McPaerson, Pnihips and Pji
lt ck. Tne account was condensed
from tne Kansas City papers and
showed that the judges had been
transported in a special car and were
accompanied by the general solicitors
of the railroads giving the excursion.
Mr. Tillman said that Judge Pnillips
uad been especially commended by
the president in connection with the
Paul M >rton case ? and he contrasted
ohe president's course in this caae with
tils course in critic zing Judge Hump
nrey in the beef packers case.
I believe it has come to be consider
ed good law to issue iuj auctions a
gainst strikers," said Mr. Tillman,
and ad.oed, "if it is not the senator
from Wisconsin (Mr. Spooner) will
correct." The manner of this appeal
to him evidently angered Mr. Spoon
er. He rose and replied sharply say
ing: "Tne senator from South Car
olina forgets wjoat is decent when be
challenges me in that way.
Mr. Tillman maintained that Mr.
Spooner bad acted very harshly tow
ard him, and charged him with hav
ing been "indecent." To this Mr.
Spooner responded that he would
withdraw the word and substitute
"rude." This satisfied Mr. Tillman
who said he did not mind being called
the word, because he was a rude mm
and did not care. Mr Tillman con
sidered the case of Editor Daniels of
the Raleigh, N. C, New and Ob
server, who had been placed in prison
because of a refusal to pay a fine of
$2.000 for criticising the appointment
oi a receiver for a railroad by Judge
Purnell.
Mr. Tlllmrn insisted upon with
drawing his question and apologizing
but Mr. 2pooner remarked that he
csked no apology. Upon an apparantly
good-natured command to Mr. Spooner
to sit down, Mr,. Tillman and toe
chair became involved in a spirited
colloquy as to who had the floor. The
decision was favorable to Spooner, who
remarked that in ordering him to
take his seat Mr. Tillman merely had
accentuated what he regarded as "a
great piece of rudeness." After Mr.
Tillman had offered an apology Mr.
Spooner sat down with the statement
ubat he did so of his own volition.
Mr. Tlliman had read an editorial
from the Columbia, S. C , State con
cerning the Judge Purnell case, up
holding the position taken by Joseph
us Daniels and quoting from a discus
sion of Circuit Judge Prltchard of
North Carolina, declaring that pub
Iis bed criticisms or even libel of a
judge is not contempt of court. In
having the editorial read he stated.
"I have that article read with espec
ial pleasure because it does ample jus
tice and speaks in the most compli
mentary way about Judge Prltchard."
When the reading was concluded
Mr. Tillman said he would pass ou to
Florid i, although he could review In
stances In his own State of acts of ty
ranny and Indecency, but ths iudge
committing them is dead and has set
tled his accounts elsewhere. The sen
ator said ne also knew some cases in
, S. C, THtrjbi?JJAV, MA
Georgia, but tbat be woulrf t-atre up |
tbe case of Circuit judge Pardee in en
joying tbe Florida railroad commission
From Instituting suit , to compel tbe
Louisville and Nashville railroad to
j reduce its fares from four to three
cents a mile. He onarged that Pardee
ought to be Impeached for bis course
Mr. Tlllman next paid his respects
to the case of Judge Charles S. Wayne
of Florida, whom the senate refused
last session to Impeach and asked to
incorporate in his remarks a statement
prepared bv Representative Lamar of
Florida. Mr. Tlllman then closed
with an apology, explained tbat the
situation was such as to require the
administering of * 'some physio.'' He
would not allow tbe judges to "roam
up and down the land, doing whatever
the railroads want and refusing to
grant relief to the people.
Senator Beacon of Georgia made a |
l spirited defense of the federal judici
ary and deplored tbe fact tbat their j
misdeeds were given such pubiioity
which would necessarily result from
this recital in the senate. Tlllman
asked him If he had not voted for the
lmpeaohmentof Judge Swayne. Beacon
made reply to "this bunch of ques
tions," as he called them. He had vo
ed for Swayne's lmpeaohment, but]
that he said was a difflrent thing from j
orlticlsing a judge before he had been
formally accused. Senator Beacon was
applauded by the Rerjublicans as he
sat down.
Announcing his conviction that Mr.
Tlllman needed no assistance in pre
senting his case to the senate, Mr.
Bailey took the floor in opposition 'to |
Mr. Beacon's contention that tbe j u
ci: clary should not be criticised on tne
floor of the senate, be believed in
branding wrong wherever it made its
appearance and while as a whole he
had the utmost confidence in the j u
diciary of the United States be could
not overlook the fact tbat there were
some unworthy members of it.
b?otix uui.
Two Young Men Tried to Kill Each ]
Other, j
(
The Columbia State t-says a sensa
tional shooting affair between Dr.
Rowland K. Smith, formerly of Co
lumbia, and Mr. T. H. Brown, a well
known lumber man of Onapln, occurr
ed at tbat place Thursday morning.
Both men, it is said, emptied their
guns at each other, but neither of
them was hit. The shooting occurred
as the train from Laurens over the Co
lumbia, Newberry and Laurens rail
road was leaving tbe station, and it is j
alleged to be tne result of the rela
tlons between Dr. Smith and the wife
of Mr. Brown.
It is said by those who saw the]
shooting that Dr. Smiti? waa hoarding
the train on it way to Columbia when
Mr. Brown opened fire on him from
the side of the track. The doctor dash
ed into the baggage car and returned
the fire through the door. Tbe passen
gers on the train were greatly alarmed
by the firing, but no one was hurt
Dr, Smith continued on tbe train
and came as far as Irmo, where he
stopped, and, it is Bald, went back]
through Cbapin on tbe next train
in that direction and went on In the
direction of Laurens. Mrs. "Brown left
Cbapin on tbe night before the shoot
ing and, went from there to Laurens.
Rumor has it that the names of Dr.
Smith and Mrs. Brown have been con
nected by gossip for some time, but
that on Wednesday they were seen
together walking in the woods and It
was this and the subsequent departure
of Mrs. Brown tbat brought the mat
ter to a nriais Tnursday. i
The affair was reported to President |
Childs of the Columbia, Newberry and
Liurense railroad soon after the arrlv
al of the train in this city. Mr. Childs
investigated the matter carefully and
announced Thursday afternoon thatj
he would place the case in the hands
of the attorney for the company with
a view to having both parties arrester1
for firing into and from the train. He
was indignant that the passengers on
bis road should have been submitted
to thiB danger, and seems determined
to bring tbe case into the courts.
Dr. Smith is a son of Oapt. C. M.
Smith of Columbia, the local agent of
the All in tic Coast line. He is about
28 years of age and is a married man
Mr. Brown is from Virginia and is
connected with the lumber mill of
Charles P. R iblnson of Chapin.
Killed by Bomb.
A dispatch from Paris says a bomb
explosion occurred in the forest of
Vincennes Thursday afternoon, kill
ing a Russian named Strle and
dangerously wounding a companion
named BouEsnoff. The men were
proceeding through the woods, each
carrying a bomb with the evident
purpose of hiding them for future
use. While so doing tbe bomb which
Strie carried exploded, killing him in
stantly. Boussnctl was struck by
fragments of the bomb and fearfully
lacerated. Tbe remaining bomb has
notyet been examined owing to the
danger in handling it.
They Can Do It
The Charleston Post says "if the
War Department can't heid off Fath
er Sherman on his maroh to the sea it
might commission some of the old
Confederate veterans In Georgia to
stop him. Most of them were away on
the fighting line when his father came
along to burn their homes and make
war upon their women and children,
and they would not be sorry of tbe
chance to halt the younger Sherman
as they might have halted the elder.
Blind Student Kxoelled.
One of the most Interesting figures
in higher mathematics, in ge>logy,
was a blind student who halls from a
small oountry town In North Carolina.
He has mastered the most difficult
courses In higher mathematics, in geo
logy, won a degree from the Universi
ty of North Carolina, and is now wo rk
ing for a degree of M. A. at Harvar d
if 10. WOG.
am mm'
Must Be Paid For by Responsi
ble Parties.
GOVERNOR HEYWARD
Writes a Letter to State Treasurer Jen
ologs oo tbe Subject. Nothing Was
Done by Legislature to' Make
Provisions for Redeeming
Worthless Bonds.
Gov.- Hey ward * Wednesday made
official inquiry into tbe matter of tbe
bonds purloined rrom tbe office of tbe
State treasurer says Tbe State. Tbe
amount so lost to tbe State approxi
mates 816,000. The fact that pur
loining bad b-en going on was dis
covered last October and was made
publio at that time.
Tbe defalcation then amounted to
816,403.75. The faco value of the
bonds purloined was 812,500 and the
interest; was 83,903.75. Between that
time and-January 1st the accrued in
terest was 8281 25 and to date is about
8400 additional.
As no announcement of any move
ment to pay has been made and as
tbe interest is increasing dally, the
legislature having declined to make
an appropriation to take up these
worthless bond certificates, Gov.
Hey ward thought it his duty to make
some inoury. The officials responsi
ble for the making good of the losses
suffered by tbe State are Oapt. R. H.
Jennings, State treasurer from 1901
to date; Dr. W. H. Tim merman, from
1895 to 1901; and Dr. W. T. O. Bates,
from 1891 to 1895. ?
Accordingly, Gov. Heyward ad
dressed the following letter to Oapt.
Jennings as there had been some dis
oussion as to the manner in which
the loss should be prorated and Oapt.
Jennings is the incumbent in that
Lfflce:
May 2, 1906.
Mr. B. H. Jennings, State Treasurer,
Columbia, S. G.
My Dear Sir: I beg leave to call
your attention to the last annual re
port of the comptroller general to tbe
general assembly relative to an in
vestigation of certain irregularities in
the State treasurer's office. This in
vestigation revealed tbe fact that in
the exchange of certain Brown Oonsol
ooupon bonds the State has lost, by a
number of fraudulent transactions,
tbe sum of 812,500, together with
83,903 75 interest paid by the State,
mating a total of 816 403.75, and I
will be glad if you will inform me
what steps, if any, have been taken
looking towards the reimbursement
of the State for tbe loss ir cur red. As
chief magistrate I feel it my duty to
call your attention to this matter,
and desire to have this information
requested in order that I may refer
it to the office of the attorney general,
so that the Interest of tbe State may
be protected, j
Very respectfully,
D. O. Heyward,
Governor.
In reply to the letter of inquiry
from Gov. Hey ward, Oapt. Jennings
made an offic.al answer in whioh he
said:
'Tarn in receipt of your letter of
thin date in re the matter of fraudu
lent transactions in exchange of cer
tain Bro.-n consol bonds of the State.
You ask what steps, if any, have
been taken looking towards the reim
bursement of the State for the loss
incurred.
"I answer for myself that I have
arranged for a loan with which to
purobase a 81,000 State bond, which
will be deposited in bank to await
the decision of the proper tribunal as
my iudvidual liability as State
treasurer, that with Interest being
the amount reported so far as having
been fradulently taken during my ad
ministration.
''I am not authorized to speak for
Dr. Bates and Dr. Timmerman, for
mer treasurers, as they have not in
formed me as to their intention.
Neither do I know what further ac
tion I will be required to take In tne
premises, nut await Instructions from
the attorney general and yourself."
The amount of tbe shortage Is in
creasing daily and It apnears that
there should be some way of securing
it. Each of tbe State treasurers who
has been hurt by tbe peculations of
some one has stated that his bonds
men shall not suffer and that ? each
Individual will pay the losses Incurred
in his administration, with interest.
There is a criminal indictment
against D. Zimmerman, bond cleric,
during the period of all of the trans
actions. On account of the fact that
Mr. Geo. Bell Timmermao, so.icltor
from this circuit, is a son of one of
the ex-treasurers, he has b:.6n reliev
ed nl tbe prosecution by courtesy,
and Solicitor James E. Davis of Barn
wen bas oeeu entrusted with the case.
It is believed that the State treasur
er and his predecessors Interested In
these proceedings will ask for counsel
to assist Mr. Davis
In a letter dated Oet. 7, 1905, from
Hon. R. H. Jennings, State treasurer,
to the comptroller general, he called
attention to what appeared to be an
Irregularity in the -matter of the ex- [
change of a certain 81,000 Brown
coupon bond, purporting to have
been canceled during tbe months of
January, 1897, and the amount cover
ed into a Btcci certificate. He stated
that, judging from the records, the
State appeared to have lost tbe
amount of said bond and tbe interest,
at 4 1-2 per cant., since that date;
. " J
and he r-q*?wted lhat th3._comptroK
ler general make a full investigation
of tbe sums of the State's securi
ties, as rtqui ed b7 law. Tne Investi
gation was immediately made in per
son by the comptroller general, assist
ed by S T. Carter, bookkeeper, and
J. Fuller Lyon, bond olerk In tbe
State treasurer's office. The result
of the investigation caused a sensa
tion over tbe State. The comptroller
general, in reporting to the State
treasurer, said:
"Tne examination reveals the fact
that the bond olerk during the period
In whioh these transactions appear
upon the books, has falsified or erased
on the books the numbers of certain
bonis surrendered for exchange, and
has abstracted bonds previously can
celed, and has substituted the same
at a later date for suoh bonds sur
rendered; and has evidently, as shown
by the Interest account, put the
bonds so erased and uncanceled on
the market. This is clearly shown
by tbe fact that all transaations dur
ing this period appear in the band
writing of the same bond olerk. it
seems that the bond olerk in the
State treasurer's office has charge of
all bond transactions."
There has been some calculating to
ascertain for how much of the loss
Dr. Timmerman will be responsible
and for how much Capt. Jennings, as
the bond olerk referred to was in
Capt. Jennlng' administration but
a few days. However, that is a mat
ter to be adjusted elsewhere and not
by tbe State.
There are now two ends to the
transaction?the prosecution of the
bond olerk and of Mr. T. J. Gibson,
indicted in connection with him; and
the other end is the securing of tbe
money lost by the State. There is
Borne disposition to criticise the legis
lative committees whioh made per
functory examinations of tbe books
In the State treasurer's office but
these committees are not under bond
and while morally they might have
neglected their duty, yet legally they
are not responsible and the State
treasurers cannot and will not make
the eff ort to contest whether or not
they should be amenable after their
books had been oheoked and approv
ed.
waited in vain.
"It Takes a Woman to Change Her
Mind."
"It takes a woman to change her
mind. Returned by the applicant, not
usedl" The above legend inscribed
across the baok of a marriage license
returned to the Supremo Court of the
District of Columbia unused, -^mmar
ized the sad ending of the romance
James H. Moffett, of New York.
Moffetfi was ready to marry Miss
Harriet E. Webb, of No. 1842 Jersey
avenue, Brooklyn, Thursday, to the
extent of being at the trysting place
in Washington with a preacher, his
license and a hopeful smile, Miss Webb
had promised to be there promptly at
noon.
It was a heartrending oase for Mof
fett of waiting at the church all tbe
afternoon and far In the night until
in despair he was moved to send back
the legal permit with the pathetic
commentary on the party of the sec
opd part and her sex in general.
Mr. Moffett met Miss Webb in
Brooklyn several months ago, and the |
courtship whioh began at once moved
on without a hitch to its triumph
ant and logical conclusion When she
gave her answer to Mr. Moffett Miss
Webb also gave a very busy Imitation
of a young woman who had found the
affinity she had known in several states
of previous existence and had been
anxiously waiting for in this life.
Moffe?t was so sincerely convinced
of the warmth of the young woman's
aff cjion for him that be consented to
go to Washington and make all of tbe
necessary arrargt nents for tbe cere
mony and await u *e bride-elect. He
carried out bis part of the contract
to the letter with a glad heart, until
he became convinced that he wap
overdoing the waiting end. Mr. Mof
fett took the first train from tne cap
ital to New York.
He is curious to know just what de
tained Miss Webb.
Found ?t Lost.
Several million nerveous women
7/in rejoice to hear what happened to j
the ''man under the bed" whom Mrs.
Earl Lindsay, of Konkonio, Ind.,
found. Her husband was away and
before she retired she looked for "the
man under the bed." Brave Mrs.
L'ndsay did not scream or faint, but
got her husband's shot gun and order
ed the man to come from under the
bed. So he did but he ran tuj of the
bouse and away. She chased him and
fired both barrels of the gun at him.
One shot hit him, then pol cemen
caught him. He was James Wilson,
professional burglar, wanted in sev
eral Indiana towns.
No Kain lor Fourteen Years.
"The most parched country in tbe
world is located on the west coast of
South America," said Capt. Reid,
master of the British steamship
Auchenerag, which arrived at Thomp
sons Point," Philadelphia, from Jqui
que and Taetal, with a cargo of
nitrate of soda for the DuPont nitro
glycerine works at G-bbsboro. When
the Auchenerag left iquique It had
not rained for fourteen years, al
though the tops of the Andes were at
times snow-capped.
Must Toe the Hark.
The attorney general holds that
work on the county poor house farm
is not "hard labor upon the public
works." The decision is the result of
the agitation with regard to the sen
tence of Clarence Thrallklll of Saluda
county. Under the law and the dt els
ion this young man will either have to
go to work on the actual cbalngaog n
Saluda County, or he will have to go
to Columbia and enter upon service in
tbe penitentiary, wbere his father is
no serving his term.
?*l.OO PER ANNUM.
SPOTTED FEVER
This Dreaded Disease Appears
Again in the West
, DOCTORS BULLED.
The Medical Fraternity is Eitirely a
Sea Concerning Caases, Oiigiu and
Nature of the Disease. Natives
Generally Attribute it to
the Wood Tick.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Eine, of
the public health and marine hospit
al service, has just been sent from
Washington to Missouia, Mont., to
investigate a new outbreak of "spot
ted fever" acd tho medical world is
once more "up in the air" over this
strange and deadly disease. Wflat cause
it? What will cure it? And what
will prevent it are questions that the
physicians have been vainly trying to
answer for thirty-five years, and today
with the history of hundreds of cases
to guide them, the learned fraternity
is as much in the dark as it was in the
early '70's, when the cattlemen of tbe
Bitter Boot valley fell victims of the
malady. Under the various names of
"black measles," blue disease," "black
fever," "tick fever," and "spotted fe
ver," scores of doctors have Investiga
ted each new outbreak and generally
have now come to the conclusion that
all the former investigations mad3 by
their brethren were conducted upon
erroneous premises and therefore were
just a little less valuable than of no
value whatever. In the first place
nearly all the scientists agreed that
the common wood tick was responsible
for the disease. In 1903 Dr. John F.
Anderson, of the marine hospital ser
vice, wrote a 30-page pamphlet on the
subject and said the tick was the
cause Two years later Dr. Charles
Wardell Stiles, of the same burea,
wrote a booklet of 120 pages upon tho
disease and declared that there
was nothing to support the theory
that the tick is to blame either for
the fever's start or finish. After ex
amining the records of several hun
dreds of cases and personally watch
ing a score of it here. Dr. Stiles reach
ed the conclusion that "no satisfac
tory specific treatment is known" for
the spotted fever, and added: "I have
no ne w theories to present regarding
the cause, transmission, and origin of
the disease."
In spite of the fact that Dr. Stiles,
doea not believe that spotted fever is
caused by the tick, throughout the
Western country where.it is most pre
valent, the tick is more than the rat
tlesnake. Many of tbe pilgrims and
dwellers in the valleys nearly die from
fright when they flad a trick upon
their person and often when they are
bilten by the pestiferous insects, take
to their beds, declaring that death has
marked them, when tney are really in
perfect health.
In the Bitter Boot Valley, which
many physicians regard as the home
of spotted fever, nearly all the casea
occur on tbe western side of the river
in the months of April, May and June.
B rth sexes and all ages are subject to
tbe disease, aud, according to the reo*
ords, about 70 per cent of the cases
termine in death. About five or six
days after beln& bitten by the tick,
whloh is given credit for the start of
the disease, the patient takes to his
bed with a heavy chill, headache and
nausea. Soon after the spots begin to
appear upon the wrists and ankles
and later upon tbe.arms, legs and
about the waist. Nosebleed, sore
throat, a fever rising to 106 at times,
and swelling of the joints cnem fol
low in succession or simultaneously,
and often a hacking cough serves to
make the patient more miserable.
Often the symptoms oiosely resemble
typhus fever and spinal me ingitls.
Dr. King's investigations into the
causes and results of tbe latest out
break of the disease will be watched
with a great deal of interest by the
entire medical profession: The fact
that the fever has in recent years
often spread into Utah, Idaho, Neva
da and Oregon from Montana, makes
each fresh appearance of the disease
the more alarming. Unless a remedy
Is found that will cure it, some physi
cians believe there is danger of wide
spread epidemics occurring through*
out the West.
Most of tee doctors who have given
study to tbe disease agree toat it is
not contagious and that it ocours
chiefly in tbe months of April, May
and June.
The spots that come with spotted
fever first appear about the ankles
and waist and by tbe end of tbe first
week they extend over the entire
bodj. There is ho regu'arlty about
their appearing on tbe feet first, as
some times the first spots appear on
tbe hands. The spots are a brluat red
and are half as big as an adult'sJiager
nail. The spotB fade as the fever sub
sides, but if tbe patient Is exposed to
cold or becomes chilly tbe spots can be
seen for several monhts afterward, al
though not as red as at first. Tnere
is much irregularity regarding the
disappearance._
Foolish Fellow.
John Pu.sley, aged 19, from
Albertsvllle, Ala., recently drank
laudanum and died lu a hospital at
Ohattanooga Thurday. In his room
over a restaurant where he woiked
100 love letters, torn to atoms, were
fuuod. One of these was addressed
to Miss Eva Conley, of Bosvllle, Ga.
Several letters were filled wijh flow
ers and ribbons. Soon after going to
Onattanooga Pursley joined the Salva
tion Army. His body will be ship
ped to Aloertavllle, Ala.